September 2019

Harper's Bazaar India

Where Fashion Gets Personal

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The New
THE HOTTEST NEW FACE IN FASHION IS DIVERSITY. And she is everywhere. From the covers of magazines, to conversations on social media. She opens and closes every show, at all the fashion weeks—from catwalks in India to runways in New York. And for Baza
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Contributors
1. Rituparna Som has been writing on culture and lifestyle for the past 18 years across leading newspapers and magazines. In this issue, she writes about Janavi India’s ode to Kashmir in ‘The Lake House’, pg 64. “Writing about what Kashmir meant as a
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7 Home As Inspiration: Rahul Mishra
The joys of a simple yet happy childhood live forever. Take Rahul Mishra’s latest couture show, Malhausi-Monaco, for instance: A garden of embroidered marigold flowers burst onto the dresses and jackets. “There used to be a kiari [flower bed] in fron
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6 Runway Watch: Key Moments From Fall 2019
The Chanel Fall 2019 collection was Karl Lagerfeld’s last for the French house. The emotional show was set against the backdrop of a winter wonderland and featured plenty of signature Chanel pieces—classic houndstooth overcoats, bouclé jackets, and s
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5 Fm Fashion
After meeting in college, Abby Shumka, Evan Ducharme, and Katie Garnham decided to start a podcast about what they love the most: Fashion. There are more than 83 episodes of their funny, incisive take on the business. Topics include the influence of
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10 The Handloom: Kanjivaram Silk
In 2018 Bollywood star Deepika Padukone wore two Kanjivarams for her wedding celebrations. One was a breathtaking red sari with the Gandaberunda, a mythical two-headed bird, and the second one had zari in both the warp and weft—it draped like molten
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The Lake House
It’s a crisp June morning, and in one corner of the 24 sq km large Dal Lake, I’m stuck in a traffic jam. I’m in a shikara, surrounded by another 10 shikaras. They are modestly piled with bunches of lake-grown spinach, radishes, turnips, green chillie
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Virtual Reality
Fitness plays a big role in Bedi’s life. After all, she spends long hours hunched over her window-facing desk, as she works on new illustrations. “I try to exercise four times a week. When I don’t get to the gym, I switch on YouTube: Yoga With Adrien
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The Weight Of The World
IN AN AGE WHERE IMAGE IS EVERYTHING AND SOUNDBITES RULE, what is the role of deep reflection and analysis, storytelling, and critical reportage in fashion writing? It’s a question close to the hearts of many print publications who have had to negotia
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8 DESIGN With A DIFFERENCE
Delhi-based Akshat Bansal grew up around his family’s ethnic wear business, playing with zardozi and spending time with karigars. After studying at National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai and Central Saint Martins, London, the 28-year-old de
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On The Bookshelf
Which book has had the most impact on you? The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. A book you can read again and again? Classics like Animal Farm and Jane Austen. I also tend to go back to the The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People when I need to be inspired
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Criminal Minds
What’s your favourite murder? A question that could have once raised eyebrows, it’s now a plausible conversation starter. Because true crime has captured our attention, our television screens, our discussions. Who is the real Zodiac Killer? How did t
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All The Lives We Ever Lived
I can imagine many things. A life without stories is not one of them. Ever since I was very young, my thoughts have reached beyond the realm of possibility. I’ve lived half in a daydream. I’ve craved an escape from the usual routine of life—searched
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An Attachment
I know I am in love with a book of fiction when I begin rationing its pages. Sometimes, like with Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, it happens early on, when I realise I am reading a work so sentence-by-sentence great that rushing through
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Family Matters
Ann Patchett is an optimist. In her novels, there are no villains—whether it’s an army of terrorists in Bel Canto (2001), an adulterous couple in Commonwealth (2016), or, in her latest saga, The Dutch House (out this month, Bloomsbury), a mother who
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Future Perfect
I had always assumed that if I bit the Botox bullet it would signal a kind of throwing in the towel; giving in to looking unnaturally smooth because I couldn’t anymore handle being naturally creased. Despite being well aware of the trend for ‘baby Bo
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The Hero Herb
FOR AS LONG AS my grandparents were alive, they loved recalling a story about my early childhood. Every rendition of the story involved neem oil. In their retelling of it, I was a chubby toddler beset with a chronic skin condition. One morning, I thr
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NEW in TOWN
Jhelum Biswas Bose, beauty writer and founder of Jhelum Loves, knows a thing or two about Bach flower remedies and aromatherapy—she’s trained in both and is a certified healer. After a decade in the industry, Bose finally decided to pen down her know
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Creating Everlasting Memories
We all want our fairy tale wedding thoughtfully curated to harmonize with our personal style: the team of in-house experts at Andaz Delhi - a luxury lifestyle hotel by Hyatt will transform your dreams to reality and will create extraordinary experien
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Ingredients For Success
It was her personal struggle with weight (losing over 45kgs) that would ultimately pave the way to entrepreneurial success for Paayal Mahajan. Everything she tried, after shedding the excess, refused to work for her skin. That’s when she decided to t
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Drawing attention
There is only one constant when it comes to our skin, and that is change. From products to treatments, there is always something new. Bazaar sits down with celebrity facialist Teresa Tarmey who opened her first clinic in India at the Four Seasons Mum
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Global Citizens
With pastel-toned visuals and a dreamy voice, Indian-American songstress Raveena hit the scene like a storm with her first video Sweet Time, which came out in 2017. The track was soft, tender, and showed a dexterity both with creative direction and m
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A Writer’s Dharma
SOME OF MY FONDEST NEW YORK MEMORIES HAVE INVOLVED UNOFFICIAL DEBATES late at night at Suketu Mehta’s NYU apartment, where groups of us have discussed race, identity politics, or watched old Bollywood music videos, over glasses of whiskey. Or, at tim
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Night At The Museum
It’s the combined forces of cultural history, personal narrative, on-site improvisation, grand costumes, and live charcoal drawings that make Nikhil Chopra’s performance art fascinating. And now, as the artist-in-residence for 2019-20 at The Metropol
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STAIRWAY TO heaven
AN IMPORTANT LANDMARK IN THE MILANESE CULTURALWORLD, the Teatro alla Scala is held as sacred ground for music and musicians. Built in 1778 in the neoclassical style, the opera house is situated on the pedestrian central square of the same name. Facin
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The Grease Feast
After being one of the forces behind two of Mumbai’s buzziest restaurants, One Street Over and Bastian, Chef Boo Kim is getting messy with his new venture, Dirty Buns. The menu at the restaurant bar was inspired by his hometown of Chicago, his Korean
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Horoscope
You seem to have managed the home front smoothly, of late. Much of what you have put in place is beginning to work to everybody’s advantage, even though there may have been some objections at the time. Don’t be afraid to congratulate yourself. LUCKY
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The New Faces Of Fashion
IT’S BEENA BIGYEAR FOR OUR COVER STARS: While Naomi was the face of Rihanna’s online Fenty campaign, Pratik made his international fashion week debut, with Spring 2020 shows for Fendi, Raf Simmons, and Hermès, among others. They stand out for all the
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WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE Paris
PARIS IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA, especially during Couture Week. The city comes alive, and that ambience and palpable excitement is a pure adrenalin rush. The journey of a couture collection is fascinating. From conceptualisation on the mood board to exp
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Where To Buy
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